Use this tool to find best tools by searching with keywords or regex patterns. If you don
AI agents call find-tools to retrieve information from MCP Hub MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries or lists available tools matching search criteria. It retrieves information about other MCP tools but does not execute them, create data, delete data, or trigger external operations. It is a discovery/search mechanism with no side effects, fitting the Read category.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'find-tools' and description indicates it searches for tools using keywords or regex patterns. The verb 'find' and 'searching' indicate data retrieval without modification.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access find-tools gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and MCP Hub MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for find-tools:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"find-tools": {}
}
}find-tools is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Use this tool to find best tools by searching with keywords or regex patterns. If you don. It is categorised as a Read tool in the MCP Hub MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP Hub MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find-tools: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches MCP Hub MCP Server. Nothing to install.
find-tools is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the find-tools rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for find-tools. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
find-tools is provided by the MCP Hub MCP Server MCP server (warpdev/mcp-hub-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Deterministic rules across all 7 MCP Hub MCP Server tools. Per-identity grants. Full audit log. Live in minutes. Nothing to install.
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7 MCP Hub MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 42,500+ MCP servers.